The most expensive Netflix film will be shot in Prague, with Gosling and Evans coming
The upcoming thriller The Gray Man with actor Ryan Gosling in the lead role, which will be the most expensive film of the streaming company Netflix to date, will be partly shot in Prague. The Variety server informed about it, according to which the director’s duo of the Russo brothers want to take advantage of the dark corners of the Czech capital, experienced production companies and state support.
Since 2010, the Czechia has been offering incentives to foreign filmmakers. they can recover 20 percent of the eligible costs they make here for the production of the film, recalls Variety.
The local filming partner will be Still, which had previously worked at Casino Royale in 200. The company was founded by Matthew Stillman, who also turned to Van Helsing, XXX, Agent without a Past Illusionist.
The Gray Man tells the story of a killer who escaped from the US CIA. In addition to Gosling, it features Chris Evans, Jessica Henwick, Wagner Moura and Billy Bob Thornton. The fleeing former CIA agent is portrayed by Evans, who is to be pursued for a change by a former secret service agent and now a Gosling assassin. “Two great actors present two possible versions of the CIA: how it can be and what it can do,” is director Anthony Russo.
The project has a budget of around $ 200 million, which is 4.4 billion crowns. It will exceed the cost of the film Irishman by director Martin Scorsese by about 40 million dollars, the most expensive work of Netflix so far.
The series for the book by Mark Greany’s books of the same name, which began in 2009, became the model for the screenplay.
The project involves screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, who worked with the Russo brothers at the superhero Avengers.
Joe Russo and Anthony Russo produced the popular action film Rescue last year for Netflix. Most recently, Apple TV + released the independent drama Cherry, a post-traumatic stress disorder and incipient opioid addiction after returning from Afghanistan. The protagonist of Cherry was played by Tom Holland.
The news staff of The Gray Man is currently filming in Los Angeles, they have probably moved to Prague at the end of April.
Netflix has not yet announced when the film will premiere. However, it is not expected until the end of this year.
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